"one participates in humanity only by being a man or a woman"

"the human being in itself, unsexed [(en soi, asexué)], does not exist, because one participates in humanity only by being [a] man or [a] woman.  Sexual determination is therefore neither accidental nor secondary, but constitutive of every [(toute)] human person.  It is therefore decisive for the comprehension of its nature and of the fact that it was created in the image and likeness of God. . . ."

     Agnès Villié, "La gender theory ou la négation de la différence sexuelle," Bulletin de littérature ecclésiastique 110, no. 1 (Jan-Mar 2009):  70 (55-80), translation mine.  This may be my only chance to note that it was sloppy of Villié to quote Heidegger as having claimed that "sexual difference is [the one thing to be thought through] in our time" (55), citing Irigaray.  No, that was Irigaray herself.